More than 30 years ago, our company founder and current managing partner, Wolfgang Oehm, had the idea to develop a heat recovery system for plastic processing machinery. From today’s perspective, it was a forward-thinking idea. In the reality of that time, however, it was a nice idea with rather modest short-term prospects for successful marketing. The obstacle to its slow success was simply the very low energy prices, which did not allow for a demonstration of cost-effectiveness in the short term.